The Huffington post finds itself once again at the heart of a Twitter storm of writers and bloggers. The aggregated content website launched in 2005 by Arianna Huffington and sold last year to AOL for a whopping $315 million US dollars is under attack from writing professionals about the way their content is generated and [...]

Would you read Oliver Twist or Animal Farm over and over? If you’re a fan of Dickens or Orwell, perhaps you would. Would you read blur Group blog posts over and over? Well, we think the more appropriate question would be why wouldn’t you peruse our prose again and again and again…just in case you [...]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/ke9icEBIGCU" width="440" height="270" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /] Angela Grimaldi is in danger. A hair raising moment of rebellion and Angelas circumstances change forever. Escaping the horror of a loveless marriage, Angela tries to start anew, but will she be able to build a new life in the watchful, traditional community in which she lives. Death [...]

The definition of Fairtrade is clear: “Fairtrade is a strategy for poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Its purpose is to create opportunities for producers and workers who have been economically disadvantaged or marginalized by the conventional trading system. If fair access to markets under better trade conditions would help them to overcome barriers to development, [...]

Crowdsourcing has become an increasingly accepted term with examples bandied about such as Google using the analysis of Web links to crowdsource their search engine, Wikipedia crowdsourcing the planet to build the largest encyclopedia and Threadless crowdsourcing approaching a million people to design t-shirts. But what is the future of crowdsourcing? Well, we think it’s [...]

As blur Group gets more of a following we increasingly get asked why what we are doing is important. It is both a fundamental and complex question to answer. I have spent the last ten years building large communities and marketplaces on the Web – consumer facing, business facing and some that mash both up. [...]